Silent Sky — Theatreworks, 2014
https://www.sfgate.com/performance/article/Theater-review-Silent-Sky-reaches-heights-5159451.php#photo-5739913
https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/01/20/review-silent-sky-at-theatreworks-a-radiant-look-at-celestial-gender-politics/
Play:
https://books.google.com/books/about/Silent_Sky.html?id=LPUrDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button
Scenes:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KiwG6r-9gcw
TheatreWorks study guide
https://issuu.com/theatreworkseducation/docs/silent_sky_study_guide
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt (July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921) was an American astronomer. A graduate of Radcliffe College, Leavitt’s access to the Harvard College Observatory came in a menial capacity as a "computer," assigned to count images on photographic plates. Study of the plates led Leavitt to propound a groundbreaking theory, worked out while she labored as a $10.50-a-week assistant, that became the basis for the pivotal work of astronomer Edwin Hubble. Leavitt's discovery of the period-luminosity relation of Cepheid variables radically changed the theory of modern astronomy, an accomplishment for which she received almost no recognition during her lifetime. Even though she worked sporadically at Harvard due to health problems and family obligations, Leavitt was made head of stellar photometry in 1921 by new director Harlow Shapley.
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Lauren Gunderson
http://laurengunderson.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Laurens-CV.pdf
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http://www.davasobel.com/
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Talk at Google —- use first few minutes
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P55QGltNvDs&feature=endscreen
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Talk at Chicago Humanities Festival
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=21&ved=0ahUKEwj-__G26OPdAhUlTt8KHQu3AVkQwqsBCMgBMBQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DRlEuezOSsx0&usg=AOvVaw1aJaDVAg1WCMqdGcVuaqvs
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http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/10853-glass-universe-sobel?showall=1
l add publisher questions if and when they're available; in the meantime, feel free to use these LitLovers talking points to help start a discussion for The Glass Universe...and then take off on your own:
1. Sobel is known for her ability as a writer to take hard science, reduce it into manageable bits of information, and then combine it with human interest stories. Does she achieve that goal here? Or was the pace of your reading bogged down with scientific minutae?
2. Talk about the women at the observatory? Consider, say, Williamina Fleming, Annie Jump Cannon, and Dr. Cecilia Helena Payne, What were they like and how did they fit—or not fit—within the confines or expectations of their times?
3.Consider, too, the two directors for whom the women worked—Edward Pickering and Harlow Shapley. How supportive were they to the women under them?
4. What was Williamina Flemming's response when she found that, even when appointed as the Curator of Astronomical Photographs, her salary fell far short of a man's?
5. How would you cast Harvard's track record concerning women in science over the years? Consider, in particular, Annie Jump Cannon and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.
6. Can you point to one achievement that especially stunned you? Perhaps Nettie Farrar's calculation (to two decimal places) of the relative-brightness values of stars?
7. Perhaps you might talk about Anna Palmer Draper, who realized the value of telescopic photography with respect to the telescopic view.
8. Talk about the way in which the women worked in collaboration with one another—how their cooperative relationships furthered scientific understanding.
9. How would you describe the women's relationships with their male colleagues? Would you consider them maternal or nurturing or intellectually dominant? What about Annie Jump Cannon's oatmeal cookies?
(Questions by LitLovers. Please feel free to use them, online or off, with attribution. Thanks.)
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Reviews and articles:
https://www.space.com/34864-glass-universe-women-computers-measured-stars.html
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https://www.npr.org/2016/12/04/503068093/women-astronomers-shine-in-the-glass-universe
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https://www.space.com/34864-glass-universe-women-computers-measured-stars.html
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http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3121/1
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Citizen Science
http://www.citizenscience.org
Citizen science is the involvement of the public in scientific research – whether community-driven research or global investigations. The Citizen Science Association unites expertise from educators, scientists, data managers, and others to power citizen science. Join us, and help speed innovation by sharing insights across disciplines.
https://scistarter.com/
Science is our most reliable system of gaining new knowledge and citizen science is the public involvement in inquiry and discovery of new scientific knowledge. A citizen science project can involve one person or millions of people collaborating towards a common goal. Typically, public involvement is in data collection, analysis, or reporting.
Here are four common features of citizen science practice: (a) anyone can participate, (b) participants use the same protocol so data can be combined and be high quality, (c) data can help real scientists come to real conclusions, and (d) a wide community of scientists and volunteers work together and share data to which the public, as well as scientists, have access.
(https://theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/articles/10.5334/cstp.51/)
The fields that citizen science advances are diverse: ecology, astronomy, medicine, computer science, statistics, psychology, genetics, engineering and many more. The massive collaborations that can occur through citizen science allow investigations at continental and global scales and across decades—leading to discovery that a single scientist could never achieve on their own.
"Amateur science," "crowdsourced science," “volunteer monitoring,” and "public participation in scientific research" are also common aliases for citizen science.
Darlene Cavalier, the founder of SciStarter, co-edited an accessible, easy-to-read primer on citizen science for anyone interested in understanding the landscape: cspo.org/news/rightful-place-of-science-citizen-science/ . Additionally, you can listen to Dr. Caren Cooper talk about citizen science in her TEDx talk in Greensboro, NC.
